You say it works the same way for backups and duplications, but that is not what I'm seeing. I guess that's my point. You said,
"Unless you choose to demultiplex duplications. Then only the very last image duplication will fail and should be discarded at the next cleanup cycle."
But the tape is not multiplexed, and the very last image is not being discarded in the cleanup cycle. In the tape reports, I see the failed image in the list of "tape contents" report, but it doesn't show in the "images on tape" report or when searching the catalog. Since the cleanup cycle is not removing that final invalid image on the tape, I'm wondering if there is a command line option I can use to manually remove it?
I will be sure to be more careful in the future to make sure that the new media I add is set as "Scratch" media.. :)